First half was like we were warming up for 37 minutes, then we suddenly started playing. I reckon we were trying to set some record for "how many different ways to drop the ball", and I can't remember us completing many sets. Second half it looked like we'd come out well on top, till Halibut gave a decision against us and then a succession of penalties till Quins scored and were back in it. Never seen a referee run round and giver a try so quickly! And Karl Pryce must have awful BO or something, cos none of our players seemed to want to be anywhere near him especially near our line. "Strolled in" does not even come close...twice!

It wasn't pretty, but its still two points that we would have dropped last year. I guess we can point to a number of notable absentees, and missing Heath certainly did not help. And we still lack a gamebreaking playmaker. And Quins played with plenty of enthusiasm, which nearly came good for them by the end. Good game by Koppy, especially after his bereavement, and Burgess looked fine for his short stint. Good job we have a bigger squad given all the injuries we are picking up.

Two points, but we'll have to be a fair bit better than that over the coming weeks. Still gelling, I guess...

With Kearney at 6?

I'd like to see that combination tbh, but I reckon Potter will stick with Herbert at 7 with BK or Briggs at 6.

I thought Herbert was alot better today. Better kicking game etc. I was alot happier with him!

I'm not convinced by Herbert.... yet.

I think we should give him longer before coming to conclusions though, I still think he could come good. He looks good at times, with nice touches, but needs to assert himself more, and stamp his authority on a game

If he isn't improving by, say, after Easter, then I'd like to see us try Briggs and Kearney as the halves.

I really hope he gets better, obviously it takes time to settle in from Oz, but to me he doesnt look like a 7, more of a stand off if anything.

Was there anything in Pryces' impact with Herbert? I didn't see but many people thought there was a raised elbow.

Im going to give you it from a neutrals POV.

Ok, I actually enjoyed the game. It was a decent battle and you deserved to win. 1st half though was all about the errors. I think there were 6 dropped balls inside the Quins 10, mainly due to a lack of composure, but the greasy ball wont have helped. Quins major downfall was their bad disipline. The penalty count was 14-7 in your favour and it just kept them on the back foot. Going into the last 10 I think the count was 14-4 but the penalties you conceded late on allowed them to get back into when in reality, they should have been no where near. Dorn injected himself into the game in that period though and was finding gaps wide nearly everytime he touched the ball. Apart from that Quins are a very basic team and they rely on building field position before they try anything. They rarely have any dummy runners and use Randall/Gale's flat short balls on the line to make breaks but today they were totally outmuscled.

On Pryce, I thought he had Walkers number all afternoon and physically dominated him on both attack and defence. An area where you fall short on is the sliding defence. You can get caught flat footed when someone hits the line on a different angle and thats exactly what happened when Pryce danced over for his 2nd.

The Bulls 1st half was as poor as it could get really. Too many errors and too much panick play when you were near the line.The 2nd half was a total turn around though and you went to a basic form of football where the forwards took up the drives and you made the hard yards with the ball rarely seeing 2 or 3 sets of hands. You earned the right to try something before you did it and that Herbert pass to Sykes was brilliant. Kopczak was awesome and must have had 25 hit ups in the game. He seemed to be every where and never looked to tired. Apart from a couple of early mistakes too I though Elima was very strong for you and was rewarded with a try on half hime.

On Burgess, I was impressed with his stint. I know it was only a 20 minute spell but what more do you want out of a kid on debut. He never got knocked back and made some nice drives. Also, it was down to his dummy run that Elima scored. He took 3 men with him and it opened up the gap for Kearney to put the French man through.

All in all I think there's a lot to build on there and if you can play to your strengths instead of trying to throw it about all the time you will do well this year.

No, he just ran straight over the top of him. The sound of the impact made it sound worse than it was.

From where I was sat it just looked like a good old fashioned fend. Nothing illegal at all.

This is what a ' bradford ' fan put on quins board 'Well done to those who came up today, a superb effort! You put our fans to shame'
put our fans to shame? we got the biggest gate of the day, against a side that bring no more than 50, complete idiot and probably not even a bulls fan.
maybe this is how he gets over what a pathetic team bradford city are?

edit: his name is bantamfan which is why i suspect he not a bull.

Until he's kicking for touch! Absolutely useless! Why bother kicking to gain 5 yards? Surely we'd get further by letting our wingers or full back take a quick tap!

He's no Paul Deacon in that respect.

eh? I have a season ticket and been to every game this season, you sir are a straight up tool. They were fantastic, how often did cas sing with there 1500? They gave it their best and were very nice

See you at hull?

That is what ultimately left them with too much to do although I dare say that had the game on on a few more minutes longer then the two points could very well be on that flash double decker on the M1 down to the Stoop.

Or Brad McKaay (spelling prob not right)

The few times ive seen Karl Pryce this season he seems to have a bit more go forward and aggression about him. He has so much talent, he could have been England's Greg Inglis. Its a shame he doesnt do often enough.

Handbags gents!?!?!?!

It was a scrappy game and we got the 2 points which was the main thing. I was a bit disappointed to see us let them back in it when we had got to 24-10 in front. Had there been longer left we could well have thrown it away.

There's still plenty to work on. We did some good things but the error count was way too high again. It was a good job they were even worse than us. On the plus side I thought Kopczak went well along with Ah Van and Kearney. Our right side defence was poor though with the cowardly lion getting three easy tries.

yes but three of hte games we have won have been by four points (twice) and two points, but the 4 games we have lost have been by an average of 21 points difference. So theres not a lot of scope for losing concentration/making basic mistakes as we have done in all three of those narrow wins. We are only just closing out games, but we need to [ucompletely[/u close them out. Not easy with so many changes at short notice, but thats why you have a squad.

hardly handbags, just dont see the need for him to criticise me when i was only being polite to the opposition, he jusged me on a computer username, his isnt exactly great is it?

People these days....

Lets stay on topic please.

Yes.

Herbert does nowt with the ball and takes the wrong option far to often.

average game from two average teams really. wasnt very enjoyable. We looked like we were playing a training match for most of the game. no real flair at all. Unfortunately I agree with those who aren't too impressed with herbert. He is very very average at the moment. Doesn't look interested most of the time and makes odd decisions. Every now and again there is a brilliant little pass but other than that he isn't bringing much to the team I don't feel. I think we will struggle against Hull on that showing today. I hoe Briggs gets fit and has a game soon as I really think he will bring some much needed creativity into the halves allowing kearney to play at FB and do what he does best from there.

yes!: Kops performance can only be 1) a tribute to his dad and 2) a massive boost to his self belief on top of the previous MOM, after living in a Burgess shadow hes really shaping up

Have to say that Karl Pryce seems to have finally got the message that he's in the last chance saloon.

He's finally using his size and strength as he always should have. Hopefully, from an international point of view, he can crack on and actually full fill his potential.